Wartime Grenade Explodes, Hurting Boy
[Per Press Association. — Copyright.} HASTINGS. This Day.
The explosion of an old wartime German grenade resulted in Allen Proffitt, aged 14i years, suffering a badly shattered left hand and internal injuries at his home in Hastings. He is an inmate of the Hastings Memorial Hospital, where two fingers and part of his inumb have been amputated. The boy bad been examining the grenade, which had been sent to New Zealand from France during the Great War, and was still caked with the mud of the trenches. The grenade had been in the house for years, and it was understoed the detonator had been removed.
It now appears, however, that it was merely hidden by the mud. The boy apparently tapped the grenade on the ground with his left hand to remove the mud. and it immediately exploded.
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Northern Advocate, 18 April 1938, Page 7
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